The Islamist extremist group Boko Haram has said it was behind the kidnapping of hundreds of school pupils in north-west...
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Top government officials in Nigeria say "everything possible" is being done to ensure the release of two musicians being held...
One of the most high-ranking officials of South Africa's governing African National Congress (ANC) has been asked to step aside...
About 1,300 people are on the verge of starvation because of hot weather and a shortage of rainfall in southern...
Zimbabwe's High Court has overturned a magistrate’s ruling barring a prominent human rights lawyer from representing freelance journalist Hopewell Chin’ono...
The only female of Liberia’s 30-member Senate retained her seat in last Tuesday’s nationwide elections. Senator Nyonblee Karnga-Lawrence defeated her...
Human rights activists say the Saudi authorities are holding hundreds of mostly Ethiopian migrant workers in appalling conditions, and that...
What you need to know:Landlocked Zimbabwe relies on Mozambique to transport its imports and export goods to overseas markets.Speculation has...
Despite mounting concern over the second wave of Covid-19, the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has warned it is not comfortable...
Al-Qaeda linked terror group Al-Shabaab has for the first time released a video displaying the names and faces of five...